CACHE Early Years Education And Care

To ensure effective hand washing is carried out when working with service users, giving personal care, handling/preparing food.

Children’s skin and hair should be appropriately looked after as when children develop they become more and more independent especially in their skin and hair care routines. It is vital to make sure the children are being washed and taught to look after themselves whilst they are being cared for by parents, guardians or staff at the nursery. If a child has really bad skin or an infection he/she will start to feel uncomfortable which is terrible for a young child to go through. Parents and staff members at the setting need to cooperate with one another in order to find out about the child’s skin and hair care routine. Every child may have different routines based on their family’s

Some children also get their tea at the nursery if they are not getting picked up till later, for their tea they normally just have a little snack like beans and toast. The professionals in the setting have to keep a sheet for each child with information on to give to their parents at time of pick up, it has information on like what they had for breakfast, dinner, tea, nappies changes, any accidents ect. They also have files for each child and keep information and pictures of different activities they do while they are at the nursery. The practitioners have to follow an instruction sheet every time they write in the file.

My responsibilities as a trainee nursery practioner include: providing physical and emotion support and care for the

1. Setting the standards for the learning, development and care, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child gets left behind. Parents, providers should deliver individualised learning, development and care that enhances the development of the children in their care and gives those children the best possible start in life. Every child should be supported individually to make progress at their own pace and children who need extra support to fulfil their potential should receive special consideration. All providers have an equally important role to play in children’s early years experiences and they have to ensure that the provision they deliver is both appropriate to children’ needs and complementary to the education and care provided in child’s other settings.

The early years framework emphasises a personal and individual approach to learning and development because valuing a child’s individuality, ideas and feelings is an important part of developing an individual approach to the learning and development. A child has universal physical needs such as food, drink and shelter and psychological needs such as love, affection, security, friendship which are essential to maintaining their quality of life. In recognising and trying to meet an individual child’s needs each child’s age, physical maturity, intellectual abilities, emotional development, social skills and past experiences and relationships need to be considered.

Lines of responsibilities everyone has responsibility for the health and safety of the children and young people each member of staff need clear reporting

This assignment is intended to provide evidence of a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of children and young people’s development birth to 19 years. By completing all tasks within the assignment, the candidate will provide evidence that meets the Learning Outcomes and assessment criteria for Unit 022, Understand Child and Young Person Development.

“When breastfeeding is not exclusively practiced, infant formulas are generally used. The World Health Organization International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk that parents be fully informed about the health hazards of unnecessary or improper use of infant formula”(2).

Many parents choose to feed their infants breast milk, because it is more nutritious than formula. In some countries such as China, women have chosen to use formula instead of breast-milk, because they have to work. Recently a baby formula crisis has occurred on China's mainland. Baby Formula is made with a product called melamine, for an added boost in protein for infants. According to Crandall “A company called the Sanlu group was purchasing melamine laced milk used in its baby formula” (Crandall, Parnell, and Spillen. 2013 pg. 22). Hospitals and clinks have become overloaded with the hundreds of infants that became sick, and a few that have died from drinking the formula. Before the outbreak of this contamination into the formula, the

Whether to breastfeed or to formula feed is one of the many decisions parents have to make when caring for a newborn baby. The decision may seem simple in which parents base there decision on comfort, convenience and finance but little do most parents know the decision being made can have damaging long term effects than that of the present. There is plenty of research that state the significance of breastfeeding that go far beyond the extent of bonding between mother and newborn. Although, that too is important. Breast milk is known to contain antibodies which can help the newborn in developing a strong immune system which influence all the body systems. Research has shown that breast-milk can help prevent long term diseases such as

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In order to be a successful early years practitioner, they should be able to demonstrate key skills, these include showing that they are patient, considerate, caring, flexible and consistent. What’s more, it is imperative that ‘every practitioner working with young children needs a sound and thorough

New parents have many decisions they have to make such as what hospital to deliver at, what items to purchase, and what doctor to monitor a little one’s growth. The biggest decision of all is choosing how to nourish your child. The two different ways to feed a child is from breast milk or formula. New mothers commonly do not know the outcome for children when they receive breast milk, which is why sharing the effects are beneficial. While using formula can still provide the nutrition a child needs, breast milk provides antibodies and leads to a healthy outcome for both the mother and child.

There are many misconceptions today about feeding formula to babies and it being equal to breastfeeding. Breast milk is complex and species-specific; it targets growth and development of infants and provides disease protection. Both breast milk and formulas contain similar nutrients, but formulas are not an exact copy of breast milk. Formula may maintain growth and development, but it doesn’t contain hormones, live cells, immunologic agents, or enzymes, all of which are contained in breast milk. Breast milk contains four-hundred nutrients that cannot be recreated in a laboratory. Formula compositions don’t change to meet the infant’s changing needs. Although many formulas are similar to breast milk, they have drastic differences in